Publisher/室町書房

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"Japan, A Photo Theatre (First Edition)" is a photo collection by Daido Moriyama, a leading Japanese photographer. It was published in 1968 as a memorable first book by Moriyama. Revised versions have been published by Kodansha and Shinchosha, but this book, which has a different design, layout and texture, is a masterpiece that has engraved its name in the history of Japanese photography. After working as an assistant to Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe, he became a freelancer and continued to take photographs, experimenting and asking himself questions, and meeting Shuji Terayama, who is responsible for the text of this book, he snapped photos of the public and entertainers he saw behind the scenes of theaters and playhouses. The content is made up of re-edited versions of those images, and it is a collection of "Daido Moriyama in the 1960s," which is a mixture of the avant-garde photographic expression after William Klein and the rejection of realism photography led by Ken Domon and others, and his desire to explore his own style against such a background, as well as the human and sentimental atmosphere that is characteristic of Daido Moriyama, who is different from Nobuyoshi Araki.